The Sogdian Rock and Roxana
Defenders jeer that only soldiers with wings could take the rock
Sogdians on a sheer crag told Alexander to find soldiers with wings. By night 300 climbers scaled the cliff with iron tent pegs and ropes; about thirty fell, but the rest appeared above the fort and it surrendered. Among the captives was Roxana, who became Alexander's wife.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 338 BC The Battle of Chaeronea — 11 years earlier
Middle East
- c. 351 BC Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — 24 years earlier
- 333 BC The Battle of Issus — 6 years earlier
- 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela — 4 years earlier
- 323 BC Death of Alexander the Great — 4 years later
- 312 BC Seleucus retakes Babylon: the Seleucid era — 15 years later
Africa
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — 4 years earlier
- 305 BC Ptolemy I proclaims himself king — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Aristotle (aged 57)
- Alexander the Great (aged 29)
- Mencius (aged 45)
- Epicurus (aged 14)
- Chandragupta Maurya (aged 13)
- Diogenes of Sinope (aged 85)
- Olympias (aged 48)
- Zhuangzi (aged 42)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 40)
- Pyrrho (aged 33)